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Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP). An Introduction. What is reading?. Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon the page: it is a quest for meaning and one that requires the reader to be an active participant. English for Ages 5-16 (The Cox Report, 1989). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP)An Introduction
Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University
What is reading?Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon the page: it is a quest for meaning and one that requires the reader to be an active participant.
English for Ages 5-16 (The Cox Report, 1989)
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Phonics: the most straightforward part of English
It is self-contained (discrete).It is clearly structured
(systematic)It is supported by a scheme –
providing the content, progression, assessment tools and ideas.
There is a wealth of resources to help.
It is skills based.Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University
Phonics: what makes it seem difficult.
The new technical vocabulary.It is a skill you as a reader do not
use consciously.The current focus and emphasis
on phonics.The use of a scheme.
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What matters for the childrenTheir phonic input matches their needs.The skills they learn in the discrete
phonics sessions are applied when they read and write.
There is not a linear approach to learning to read – those children still tackling decoding can also demonstrate more advanced reading skills.
Any focus on phonics is balanced by the rest of the English / literacy curriculum.
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Some Key Statements to Understand
There are around 44 phonemes in the English language. Letters are symbols (graphemes), which represent the
sounds (phonemes) in words. A phoneme can be represented by a grapheme made up of one or more letters: c/a/t, k/ee/p, h/igh, th/r/ough.
A phoneme can be spelt in more than one way. So one sound can have different representations: day, great, make, paper.
Some graphemes represent more than one phoneme. So one spelling but more than one sound: bread, bead, steak.
You need to teach the skill of blending the phonemes together in a word in order to be able to decode it.
c-a-t cat. You need to teach the skill of segmenting each phoneme in
a word in order to be able to spell it. cat c-a-t.
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Language comprehension
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Some key terms to knowPhoneme: smallest unit of soundGrapheme: symbol which represents
the phonemeGPCs: grapheme-phoneme
correspondencesDigraphTrigraphAdjacent consonants /consonant clusterBlending for readingSegmenting for spelling
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
c a t
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Indicating the phonemes: phoneme frame
c a t
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
d o g
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
s t r u t
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
ch a t
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
ch ur ch
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Indicating phonemes: sound buttons
s c r u n ch
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Indicating phonemes
h igh
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Making the long ‘a’ phonemeay ai a-esay rain maketray Spain cakeplay snail game
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Making the long ‘a’ phonemea ei eigha vein eightRachel rein weight
reign
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Some key terms to knowPhoneme: smallest unit of soundGrapheme: symbol which represents
the phonemeGPCs: grapheme-phoneme
correspondencesDigraphTrigraphAdjacent consonants /consonant clusterBlending for readingSegmenting for spelling
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Key phonic knowledgeA phoneme can be represented
by one or more lettersThe same phoneme can be
represented in more than one way.
The same spelling may represent more than one phoneme.
A grapheme is the representation of the phoneme – so may be more than one letter. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ
Church University
Reading for pleasure and for life
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/resources/videos/3858_reading_for_life_not_for_tests
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